AMWG Meeting Notes

September 23, 2014

Via WebEx1:30 – 4:30

  1. Antitrust Admonition – John Schatz
  2. Introductions – Attendees

Name / Company
John Schatz / TXU Energy
Andrea O’Flaherty-Brown / Solutions Cube – SMT
Ed Echols / Oncor
Kathy Scott / CenterPoint Energy
Jesse Macias / AEP
Sheri Wiegand / TXUEnergy
Steve Brightman / Southwest Energy Smarts
Debbie McKeever / Oncor
Bobby Roberts / TNMP
Rob Bevill / Green Mountain / NRG
Jason Moscos / TNMP
Jim Lee / Direct Energy
Carolyn Reed / CenterPoint Energy
  1. Review draft meeting notes and action items from June meeting and make necessary updates/revisions
  2. The group reviewed the August meeting minutes approved as submitted.
  1. Review Action Items from August Meeting
  2. The group reviewed the Action Items noted in the August meeting minutes. All action items were completed, with the exception of those listed below, which will carry forward as continuing commitments:
  3. Action Item: John Schatz will prepare and submit a Change Request to add various SMT User Guides to the unauthenticated area of SMT to allow public access.
  4. Action Item: Esther Kent to request posting of the entire Usability Study to the AMWG Key Documents Esther – was the action item completed?
  5. Action Item: Esther Kent to update the Issue Document and Change Request Form and submit to ERCOT Stakeholder Services Esther – was the action item completed?
  6. Action Item: Esther Kent and John Schatz to develop an Issues Tracking document and Change Request Tracking document Schatz has done nothing on this, has Esther?
  1. High Level Status Update on all RMS-approved Change Requests
  2. Brief update on all Change Requests – generally status quo from the previous meeting
  3. CR016 is complete, in production, and available to the Market.
  4. Action Item: Andrea O’Flaherty to issue Market Notice announcing the availability of the functionality.
  1. Update on SMT’s 3rd Party Access System Development and Market Training
  2. The first round of security validation is complete
  3. 3rd Party Access Functionality is still targeted for release mid-November 2014, but could be sooner
  4. There are ~3,700 test cases being run as part of the testing effort
  5. The two 3rd Party Training sessions were well attended
  6. October Agenda Item: Andrea O’Flaherty will present additional details of the training, i.e, number of physical attendees and web-ex attendees for the completed sessions.
  1. Review SMT Monthly Market Reports for August
  2. The August monthly reports had been posted to the Key Documents of the September AMWG meeting page for participant review prior to the meeting. There were no report-related questions brought forth by the participants.
  1. Review of the Disclaimer/Template Language to be Used for the 3rd Party Access Site
  2. The group reviewed the language that will be included as a disclaimer on the email notices SMT users receive pursuant to a 3rd party request for data. As the language had been previously approved by PUC staff, there was not an opportunity for revisions.
  1. SMT Issue Tracking Form for Implementing Degree Day Data to the Usage Graph as Requested by an SMT Portal User via SMT Help Desk Ticket SMTI33741
  2. The group engaged in a discussion about the concept of adding degree day (cooling and heating) information to the usage graphs on the SMT GUI
  3. Considering that the concept of a degree day is one that most people don’t understand (in contrast to daily temperature), and primarily because degree day information is not considered to be a core SMT function, the group’s consensus-based decision was that Degree Day Data would not be shown on SMT. No further action is required.
  4. Action Item: Andrea O’Flaherty will contact the SMT user who submitted the idea and explain that the degree day data will not be displayed on SMT
  1. Update from RMS on Change Request 2014-018 (Request for Availability of Generation Data to be Viewed on the SMT Portal
  2. Rob Bevill provided the group a re-cap of the RMS approval of CR 2014-018
  3. Discussion ensued regarding at what point in time and by who are approved CR Business Requirements (BRs) generated. Essentially – does the JDOA generate the BRs after receipt of the approved CR or does the CR submitter generate the BR’s shortly after CR approval.
  4. Action Item: Rob Bevill to draft BR’s for CR 2014-018 for presentment/discussion at October AMWG meeting
  5. October Agenda Item: Discussion of Business Requirements for CR 2014-018
  6. Storage of Historical SMT Documents, Specifically Those Documents Created After the Conclusion of the Advanced Metering Implementation Team (AMIT)
  7. John Schatz summarized for the group the conference call held between AMWG & RMS leadership and ERCOT (Mandy Bauld, Ted Heilu, Dave Michelson). The purpose of the call was to discuss options available from ERCOT to store historical SMT documents. A final solution was not made during the call, and ERCOT was to explore options and provide proposed solutions. An idea was that a file/page structure similar to that used for the TXSET Working Group could be used for AMWG.
  8. Action Item: John Schatz will contact ERCOT for a status update on proposed solution development.
  1. Review of Action Items and Agenda Items for October Meeting
  2. John Schatz led the group through the action items and future meeting agenda items, which are noted in these meeting minutes as Action Item and October Agenda Item
  1. Identify items to present to RMS June meeting
  2. John Schatz advised the group that due to the next RMS meeting being October 28, the AMWG update to RMS will be a compilation of items from both the 9/23 and 10/22 AMWG meetings.

Meeting was adjourned at approximately 3:07 p.m.

Future Meetings

  • October 22nd, Wednesday 9am – 12pm WebEx
  • Meeting(s) for Nov-Dec will be determined at the Oct meeting